By Mama Disrupt® and Gumtree Need to learn how to clean your fabric sofa because your kids have trashed it? And it’s covered in baby spew, food crumbs and dog hair? Don’t stress girlfriend. It’s easy to spruce up a sofa and remove minor marks – giving a pre-loved or …
How Mothers Are Now Accessing Hospital Grade Antenatal Care From Home
By Nicole Fuge, MD® Managing Editor The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the way we live (at least for right now) and it could even change the way expectant mothers get their antenatal care. Yup, that’s right. A trial into providing antenatal care to woman at home has showed the level of …
Why We Should Normalise Breastfeeding In Public
By Nicole Fuge, MD® Managing Editor Tara Pavlovic is hungry (and ain’t nobody hungrier than a breastfeeding mama), so she tucks into a burger. Her three-month-old son, Paddy, is also hungry. Can’t blame the little guy, it is lunch time after all. So Tara starts to nurse – feeding her …
Why Olympian Faith Kipyegon Took A Year Off To Focus On Motherhood
By Faith Kipyegon When I took time out to have a baby, I took a full year off running: four months before the birth, another eight months after it. Coming back was not easy. Your body changes during pregnancy. I gained a lot of weight: I was 45kg before, 53kg …
The Secret Self-Care Hack For Breastfeeding Mamas
By Nicole Fuge, MD® Managing Editor Breastfeeding is often depicted as one of the most beautiful experiences a mum and bub can go through – there’s the bonding and the nourishing of your little bebe, and the long gazes into each other’s eyes. But not everyone has that experience, and …
6 Wardrobe Essentials Every Baby Needs In Their Closet
By Rebecca Hooton, Mama Disrupt® Assistant Editor If you’ve got a tiny human in your life, no doubt you’ve wound up with your fair share of fashion fails for them [uhhh shoes that never stay on? *face palm*]. You often have no idea what an actual baby is like, so …
How to get Your Boo Sleeping Through
Tired as a mother? Sleep when the baby sleeps they say, but what if your bubba has a hard time getting the f*ck to sleep and staying asleep?! Walking around feeling like you are permanently jetlagged is often a ‘normal’ part of early motherhood, but when your brain gets to …
Comfort Food: Lamb Shanks With Sweet Potato Mash
By Magdalena Roze These lamb shanks are one of my go-to recipes because they’re incredibly simple to make, nourishing, versatile and flavoursome – the magic lies in the slow cooking. This gives the meat a chance to release all of its flavours and mesh with the others, while becoming deliciously …
Emily Blunt’s Biggest Life Lessons in Motherhood
Having children changed the way Emily Blunt wanted to live her day-to-day life. Together with husband John Krasinksi, and daughters Hazel, four, and Violet, two, she traded the lights and paparazzi of L.A. for a relatively quiet life in California’s Ojai. 1 // EMILY, HOW HAS MOTHERHOOD CHANGED YOU? It’s …
The Quinn Girls #DISRUPTED
By Kerrie Simon-Lawrence, photography Melanie McNiven, shoot location Kingfisher Bay Resort on Fraser Island Eleesha Quinn can still remember the Instagram photo that changed everything. “My daughter Logan asked me to be in a picture with her. I had never really liked to be in photos, so I said no. I’ll …